A woman who overcame tremendous odds to go from "homeless to Harvard" has turned her life story into an American bestseller. Liz Murray rose from some of New York's meanest streets to graduate from the Ivy League and has become an international speaker. But some of her earliest memories are of her parents spending their welfare payments on cocaine and heroin when she and her sister were starving: "We ate ice cubes because it felt like eating. We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner.
